9/11 Widow in Buffalo Crash Was Also Guantanamo Protester

February 13, 2009

Local papers are memorializing Beverly Eckert, the “9/11 widow” whose husband died in the south tower when the World Trade Center was hit by a terrorist attack in 2001, and who was killed in last night’s air crash in Buffalo. The Times, Daily News and New York Post mention that she became a crusader for a 9/11 investigation, and her efforts helped get the Federal Commission of the attacks and their handling launched.

What none of them mention, though, is that Eckert was among a group of 9/11 family members who last year publicly challenged the military commissions at Guantanamo, and signed a statement saying “many of us do not believe these military commissions to be fair, in accordance with American values, or capable of achieving the justice that 9/11 family members and all Americans deserve.”